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Several important early physics discoveries were made here, including the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson (1897) the Townsend discharge by John Sealy Townsend, and the development of the cloud chamber by C.T.R. Wilson. Ernest Rutherford became Director of the Cavendish Laboratory in 1919.
The History of the Cavendish. The Cavendish Laboratory has an extraordinary history of discovery and innovation in Physics since its opening in 1874 under the direction of James Clerk Maxwell, the University's first Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics. Up till that time, physics meant theoretical physics and was regarded as the province ...
Mar 6, 2024 · As often noted, several important early physics discoveries were made here, including the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson (1897) the Townsend discharge by John Sealy Townsend, and the development of the cloud chamber by C.T.R. Wilson. Ernest Rutherford became Director of the Laboratory in 1919.
The Mott era - radio astronomy and high energy physics 15. The Mott era - the growth of condensed matter physics Part VIII. 1971 to 1982: 16. The Pippard era - a new laboratory and a new vision 17. The Pippard era - radio astronomy, high energy physics and laboratory astrophysics 18. The Pippard era - condensed matter physics Part IX. 1984 to ...
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J.J. Thomson was appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1919, and thus began Rutherford's remarkable final act in the story of nuclear physics. Thomson's new position demanded his full attention, so he resigned as Cavendish Professor and as director of the Cavendish Laboratory. A board of electors, including Joseph Larmor (1857–1942) and...
It is often said that Rutherford had little time for research of his own when he moved to the Cavendish Laboratory in 1919. True, he did have more administrative duties than at earlier stages in his career. Moreover, he did more for science beyond the lab, as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1923) and of the Roya...
The Cavendish Laboratory in the 1920s and 30s was a busy and crowded place. In addition to Rutherford, Chadwick, Aston, and Thomson, each year roughly thirty research students and a number of visitors were busily pursuing diverse researches. Some teams investigated problems related to Rutherford's and some researched other problems. Some Cavendish ...
Rutherford's researchers produced three major nuclear developments in 1932. In February, Chadwick announced the detection of the neutron. In April, John Cockcroft and E.T.S. Walton disrupted the nucleus using artificially accelerated protons. And late in the year, Patrick Blackett and Giuseppi Occhialini (1907–1993) demonstrated the existence of th...
History. A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in Cambridge. The beginnings. In 1933, Karl Jansky, working at the Bell Telephone Laboratories at Holmdel, New Jersey, discovered the radio emission from the Galaxy, a discovery confirmed by Grote Reber a few years later. These observations attracted little attention from professional astronomers and ...
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Rayleigh's Time. The Old Cavendish - "The First Ten Years". by Dennis Moralee from the booklet "A Hundred Years and More of Cambridge Physics". The regulations for the Cavendish chair clearly said it was to terminate at Maxwell's death unless the Senate decided otherwise. The Senate must have been convinced of the value of the Cavendish, for it ...
